1. Your Digital Footprint
Digital Citizenship Lesson

2. What is your Digital Footprint?
On the Internet a digital footprint is the word used to describe the trail, traces or "footprints" that people leave online.

3. This is information transmitted online, such as forum registration, s and attachments, uploading videos or digital images and any other form of transmission of information — all of which leaves traces of personal information about yourself available to others online.

4. Can Everyone See My Information?
Some of this material may be available publicly to anyone searching for it while other material may be inaccessible without access rights or, for some kinds of data that are not usually available publicly, legal action.
Interested parties can use data they have found for evidence, data mining or profiling purposes.

5. How can it affect me?
Search engines and social networks sites can reveal a lot about people using the Internet
Information Online can be forwarded to anyone, sometimes after being altered first.
Anything can be publicly broadcast for all to see.
Once information is online it is very difficult to take down. Even deleting information does not take it out of cyberspace.

6. Stories

7. Perspectives on Social Media

8. Terms to Know
digital citizenship: navigating the digital world safely, responsibly, and ethically
consequence: the effect of something that happened earlier
reputation: the general impression of a person held by others and the public
persist: to continue and endure
context: different factors that surround a piece of information that help determine its meaning
tag: to add a descriptive word, label, or phrase to a photo or video

9. Avatar-An avatar is a graphic (picture, image) that you use to represent yourself on the Internet.
Flame-A deliberately mean-spirited message sent to others on the Internet.
Harrassment-To annoy someone repeatedly. For example, cursing at, following, or mocking someone online.
Netiquette-Courtesy, honesty, and polite behavior practiced on the Internet - key component of digital citizenship.
Impersonation-breaking into someone else’s account, or creating a fake account and posing as them to send messages to make them look bad.
Trolling-intentionally posting messages meant to incite conflict, upset people and provoke them into fighting.

10. Digital Law
Digital Law: electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
Digital law deals with the ethics of technology within a society.
Unethical use manifests itself in form of theft and/or crime.

11. Users need to understand that stealing or causing damage to other people’s work, identity, or property online is a crime.
These laws apply to anyone who works or plays online.
Hacking into others information, downloading illegal music, plagiarizing, creating destructive worms, viruses or creating Trojan Horses, sending spam, or stealing anyone’s identity or property is unethical.